Monoculture

emissions of the nation’s entire transportation sector (11), and the subsequent agricultural activity creates 36% of Argentina’s total emissions (12). In addition to the release of these climate change-inducing greenhouse gasses, deforestation and soy monoculture in Argentina present various social and environmental consequences. The flora and fauna of the Gran Chaco, as well as its indigenous people, face displacement and violence from encroaching farmers and ranchers (13); non-indigenous…

Factory Farming How is that burger tasting? Learning the process that food went through will change the way anyone looks at a simple cheeseburger again. A 2012 Food and Water Watch analysis of USDA data has revealed that at least 5.5 million cows are being kept in the horrible conditions of factory farms. Factory farming is evil and should be stopped. It is cruel to animals, thoughtless, and is a cause of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. It must be stopped before it brings more terrible…

The United States has a lot of power and control over everything. "Manifest Destiny was a phrase that was coined to help influence and manipulate the minds of Americans."1 Manifest Destiny was the strong belief that the Americans had a God given right to expand across the North American continent. This expansion and new way of thinking, enforced western settlement, caused Native American to lose their land, provoked war with Mexico, and had other stipulations that created wrong doing throughout…

ammonium nitrate” which they sprayed on corn as a fertilizer to help farm the land without depleting nutrients (Pollan 41). This not only helped farmers grow higher yields but also “liberated [them] from old biological constraints” by allowing a monoculture and an abundant supply of corn (Pollan 45). However helpful in creating a surplus to feed billions, nitrogen fertilizers have a negative connotation to many in society. One farmer activist even said “’we’re still eating the leftovers of World…

Pollan begins this movie by mentioning the audience that the plants have been using us and working on us. This movie examines four plants that ensure their survival with satisfying human yearnings or desires. Moreover, this movie explores on the “dance of domestication” between plants and humans. Lastly, this movie proves that the humans fits in the “web of nature” rather than standing outside of this web. Apple is an universal fruit around the world today. Apple originated from the ancient…

Cercoza - Paulinella chromatophora The spectacle of endosymbiosis is the ability of one organism to live within another, changing and influencing the evolution of life, and shaping the ecology of countless species. Endosymbionts and their hosts typically represent distinct domains of life. The origin of primary plastid is traced back to a single primary endosymbiosis where a non-photosynthetic protist engulfs a photosynthetic cyanobacteria as cytoplasmic organelles. Plastids and the…

Annotated Bibliography Brookes, Graham, and Peter Barfoot. “Environmental impacts of genetically modified (GM) crop use 1996-2013.” Impacts on pesticide use and carbon emissions 6: (2015)103-133. Print. This academic journal article focuses on the environmental impacts of GM crops. Environmental studies on greenhouse gases, insecticide usage, and pesticide usage are supported in this article with scientific data. This study shows that a reduction in greenhouse gases can be seen in two key…

Cultural differences However, migrants originating from non-English speaking countries to Australia have adjustment needs extending beyond employment (Bahn, 2014). Previous literature has highlighted the specific adjustment needs of expatriates as interacting with others in the host country, work, and general culture and living conditions (Bahn, 2014). Bahn’s study on the success of Filipino skilled migrants showed that extensive support is needed, especially when the migrant’s family move to…

production had a major consequence; fewer people went hungry, but the agricultural chemicals that were developed in the Green Revolution favored high yield grains with little nutrition over lower yield crops and permitted the streamlining of monocultures. A monoculture is the planting of one strain of a crop to increase planting and harvesting efficiency, but the reduction of diversity is a double edged sword—if the monocultured food is all someone has to eat (as is often the case in the poorer…

akin to Tyson and Monsanto. The world is being overtaken by corn, which is not a huge surprise if one looks on that back of almost all grocery items. But this creates a problem that is known as monoculture, which means the world is becoming too dependant on corn. There are risks that come with monoculture, such as bug infestation and plant disease. Companies avoid these problems by spraying crops with large amounts of pesticides and similar chemicals. The chemicals can enter runoff and…